2. Again, do you not hear daily the Noise of Cannon-shot from Heaven let off, and the Bullets fly about your ears, and see them strike this Man and that Man in your view? It is the Apostle's Conviction to the Gentiles, Rom. 1. 18. That therefore there is a Treasury of Wrath to come, which he speaks of, chap. 2. 4. because at present even in this World, The Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men, that withhold the Truth in Unrighteousness. The meaning whereof is, There is no sort or kind of Unrighteousness or Ungodliness, but in the Instance or Example of some Man or other, God hath by some manifest Judgment shown his Wrath against it, in the view and observation of the very Heathens ⟨p. 211⟩themselves, of and to whom it is he speaks this. There was never a Nation of the Heathens, but the Stories of it would have afforded a Theatre of God's Judgments against all sorts of Evils in in one Person or other, singled out by Decimation (as it were) in this World, to show thereby that there was an hidden Wrath to come in the other World, which would fall upon all the rest, who yet escaped at present. Those few and scattered Instances manifested a Treasury, a Magazine of Wrath in Heaven; his Phrase is, from Heaven, that is, in and from God: which the Heathens also were sensible of, witness their Sacrifices of Atonement directed unto Heaven. And this to be the Apostle's Scope is clearly seen, in that he prosecutes this in the following Chap. 2. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O Man, whosoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thy self; for thou that judgest, doest the same things. But we are sure that the Judgment of God is according to Truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O Man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the Judgment of God? Or despisest thou ⟨p. 212⟩the Riches of his Goodness, and Forbearance, and Long-suffering, not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance? But after thy hardness, and impenitent Heart, [treasurest up unto thy self Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.
2. Again, do you not hear daily the Noise of Cannon-shot from Heaven let off, and the Bullets fly about your ears, and see them strike this Man and that Man in your view? It is the Apostle's Conviction to the Gentiles, Rom. 1. 18. That therefore there is a Treasury of Wrath to come, which he speaks of, chap. 2. 4. because at present even in this World, The Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all Ʋngodliness and Ʋnrighteousness of Men, that withhold the Truth in Ʋnrighteousness. The meaning whereof is, There is no sort or kind of Unrighteousness or Ungodliness, but in the Instance or Example of some Man or other, God hath by some manifest Judgment shewn his Wrath against it, in the view and observation of the very Heathens ⟨p. 211⟩themselves, of and to whom it is he speaks this. There was never a Nation of the Heathens, but the Stories of it would have afforded a Theatre of God's Judgments against all sorts of Evils in in one Person or other, singled out by Decimation (as it were) in this World, to shew thereby that there was an hidden Wrath to come in the other World, which would fall upon all the rest, who yet escaped at present. Those few and scattered Instances manifested a Treasury, a Magazine of Wrath in Heaven; his Phrase is, from Heaven, that is, in and from God: which the Heathens also were sensible of, witness their Sacrifices of Atonement directed unto Heaven. And this to be the Apostle's Scope is clearly seen, in that he prosecutes this in the following Chap. 2. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O Man, whosoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thy self; for thou that judgest, doest the same things. But we are sure that the Judgment of God is according to Truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O Man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the Judgment of God? Or despisest thou ⟨p. 212⟩the Riches of his Goodness, and Forbearance, and Long-suffering, not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance? But after thy hardness, and impenitent Heart, [treasurest up unto thy self Wrath against the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.
